Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Fundamental Theorem of Forums

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Felix the Cat
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Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Post by Felix the Cat »

"On average, the helpfulness and usefulness of a post is inversely proportional to its author's post count."

Discuss.
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TheBigPK
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

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Fail. In many forums I find, the most active members or mods are often the most helpful, and have extraordinarily high post counts.
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Peet
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Post by Peet »

Ehh...we have posters ranging from highly helpful to useless to malevolent in all categories of postcount and post frequency. Same goes for other forums I've been a part of.
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KaiserJ
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Post by KaiserJ »

or in the case of my posts...

"the helpfulness and usefulness of a post is inversely proportional to its word count."
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Jazcash
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Post by Jazcash »

"On average, the helpfulness and usefulness of a post is inversely proportional to nothing." Helpfulness cannot be measured.
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AF
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Post by AF »

My post count pwns
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smoth
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Post by smoth »

Felix the Cat wrote:"generalizations often going to be incorrect"

truth.
-fixed
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KingRaptor
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Post by KingRaptor »

JAZCASH wrote:"On average, the helpfulness and usefulness of a post is inversely proportional to nothing." Helpfulness cannot be measured.
I heard chickens don't really cross roads either
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Boirunner
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

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you must be new to the internets
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REVENGE
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Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

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Boirunner wrote:you must be new to the internets
Jesus Christ you're being so fucking gota tonight.
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